101-150 Flashcards
1
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- a wrong belief
- a false or mistaken idea
A
fallacy
2
Q
- to cause to be foolish
A
infatuation
3
Q
- having a pleasant or agreeable taste
A
palatable
4
Q
- too great, powerful, beautiful, etc., to be described or expressed
A
ineffable
5
Q
- a method of explaining and treating mental and emotional problems by having the patient talk about dreams, feelings, memories, etc.
A
psychoanalysis
6
Q
- a place that has many confusing paths or passages
- maze
A
labyrinth
7
Q
- to give (someone) the legal right to vote
A
enfranchise
8
Q
- to make great or greater
- increase, enlarge <to></to>
A
aggrandizement
9
Q
- not straight, short, and direct
- not said or done simply or clearly
A
circuitous
10
Q
- to make an official decision about who is right in a dispute
A
adjudicate
11
Q
- knowing everything
- having unlimited understanding or knowledge
A
omniscient
12
Q
- to persuade someone to do something or to give you something by making promises or saying nice things
A
cajolery
13
Q
- medical : the loss of the ability to feel pain while conscious
A
analgesia
14
Q
- a confusing or difficult problem
A
conundrum
15
Q
- the act of doing something to hurt someone because that person did something that hurt you or someone else
A
vengeance
16
Q
- to use analogy or example
A
analogize
17
Q
- the process by which a green plant turns water and carbon dioxide into food when the plant is exposed to light
A
photosynthesis
18
Q
- physical exercises that are done without special equipment
A
calisthenics
19
Q
- tolerant of variations in religious opinion or doctrine
A
latitudinarian
20
Q
- a type of garden plant that has white, purple, or red flowers
A
anemone
21
Q
- an expression of good wishes when someone leaves
A
adieu
22
Q
- medical : a substance that prevents blood from forming clots
A
anticoagulant
23
Q
- one-celled somewhat slipper-shaped mostly freshwater protozoans
A
paramecium
24
Q
- a piece of equipment that turns meat over a source of heat so that it cooks on all sides
A
rotisserie
25
Q
- an officer in the British army commanding a brigade and ranking immediately below a major general
A
brigadier
26
Q
- a piece of cloth that hangs down from above a window and can be used to cover the window
A
curtain
27
Q
- the kitchen of a ship or airplane
A
galley
28
Q
- a new version of something : something (such as a piece of writing or a song) that has been corrected or changed
- study of information that was studied before
A
revision
29
Q
- a solid lump of a valuable metal (such as gold)
- a small, usually round piece of food
A
nugget
30
Q
- easy to see or notice
- easy for the mind to understand or recognize
A
obvious
31
Q
- something (such as a flood, tornado, fire, plane crash, etc.) that happens suddenly and causes much suffering or loss to many people
- a complete or terrible failure
A
disaster
32
Q
- a set of straps that are used to connect a person to something (such as a parachute or a seat)
A
harness
33
Q
- the strength or force that something has when it is moving
A
momentum
34
Q
- information about the behavior and personal lives of other people
A
gossip
35
Q
- a vehicle that travels back and forth between places
A
shuttle
36
Q
- the amount of sound that is produced by a television, radio, stereo, etc.
- an amount of something
A
volume
37
Q
- true to life or nature
- ready to see things as they really are and deal with them sensibly
A
realistic
38
Q
- box or case to hold a dead body
A
coffin
39
Q
- so heavy or hard to take as to be a burden
A
burdensome
40
Q
- completely unreasonable or untrue
- ridiculous
A
absurd
41
Q
- an idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain facts or events
- an idea that is suggested or presented as possibly true but that is not known or proven to be true
A
theory
42
Q
- a piece of furniture that is used for storing things and usually has doors and shelves
A
cabinet
43
Q
- relating to unpleasant subjects (such as death)
A
morbid
44
Q
- to push or rub with the nose
- to lie close, snuggle
A
nuzzle
45
Q
- a transparent object that usually has three sides and bends light so that it breaks up into rainbow colors
A
prism
46
Q
- any of various young or very small fish often preserved in oil for food
A
sardine
47
Q
- the part of a page that is above, below, or to the side of the printed part
A
margin
48
Q
- a fish that lives in the Atlantic Ocean and that is often eaten as food
A
haddock
49
Q
- a substance that is found in most plants and animals and that is especially important in people for strong healthy bones
A
calcium
50
Q
- to not do what someone with authority tells you to do <disobey></disobey>
- to refuse or fail to obey rules, laws, etc.
A
disobey
